Art Exhibit and Cultural Event to remember Al Nakba, the Black Panthers, and Indigenous Resistance
May 15, Oaklandhttps://t.co/k2CQzTGpSx

— Dave Id (@DaveId) May 13, 2016

The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 4 PM at Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater at 14th Street & Broadway near the steps of City Hall. If it is raining (as in RAINING, not just misting) at 4:00 PM we meet in the basement of the Omni Collective, 4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland.  On every last Sunday we meet a little earlier at 3 PM to have a community potluck to which all are welcome.

OO General Assembly has met on a continuous basis for over four years! Our General Assembly is a participatory gathering of Oakland community members and beyond, where everyone who shows up is treated equally . Our Assembly and the process we have collectively cultivated strives to reach agreement while building community.

At the GA committees, caucuses, and loosely associated groups whose representatives come voluntarily report on past and future actions, with discussion. We encourage everyone participating in the Occupy Oakland GA to be part of at least one associated group, but it is by no means a requirement. If you like, just come and hear all the organizing being done! Occupy Oakland encourages political activity that is decentralized and welcomes diverse voices and actions into the movement.

General Assembly Standard Agenda

1. Welcome & Introductions
2. Reports from Committees, Caucuses, & Independent Organizations
3. Announcements
4. (Optional) Discussion Topic

Occupy Oakland activities and contact info for some Bay Area Groups with past or present Occupy Oakland members.

Occupy Oakland Web Committee: (web@occupyoakland.org)
Strike Debt Bay Area : strikedebtbayarea.tumblr.com
Berkeley Post Office Defenders:http://berkeleypostofficedefenders.wordpress.com/
Alan Blueford Center 4 Justice:https://www.facebook.com/ABC4JUSTICE
Oakland Privacy Working Group:https://oaklandprivacy.wordpress.com
Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity: prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/
Bay Area AntiRepression: antirepression@occupyoakland.org
Biblioteca Popular: http://tinyurl.com/mdlzshy
Interfaith Tent: www.facebook.com/InterfaithTent
Port Truckers Solidarity: oaklandporttruckers.wordpress.com
Bay Area Intifada: bayareaintifada.wordpress.com
Transport Workers Solidarity: www.transportworkers.org
Fresh Juice Party (aka Chalkupy) freshjuiceparty.com/chalkupy-gallery
Sudo Room: https://sudoroom.org
Omni Collective: https://omnicommons.org/
First They Came for the Homeless: https://www.facebook.com/pages/First-they-came-for-the-homeless/253882908111999
Sunflower Alliance: http://www.sunflower-alliance.org/
Bay Area Public School: http://thepublicschool.org/bay-area

San Francisco based groups:
Occupy Bay Area United: www.obau.org
Occupy Forum: (see OBAU above)
San Francisco Projection Department: http://tinyurl.com/kpvb3rv

Liberated Lens hosts 2 days of films.

Liberated Lens in collaboration with the Land Action 4 hosts 2 days of films, workshops and fun!! Bay Area social justice, activist organizations will be sharing their knowledge and experience throughout the festival and holding hands on activities in between the films.

Films screening:
1) Shelter
2) Edible City: Grow the Revolution
3) Occupy the Farm

A 2 day mini film fest benefit, showing a total of 4 activist/social justice films about various projects in the Bay Area. Directors and Producers of the films will hold Q&A after each screening. Various Social Justice groups will be tabling and workshops will be held as well. A dinner will be served at 6pm. The benefit is held to pay back the bail money borrowed to get Patrick Xu out of jail.

Peace Flag raising ceremony, first at Civic Center flagpole at 2180 Milvia Street, corner of Allston Way and then at the flagpole at MLK, Jr. Civic Center Park, 2151 MLK, Jr. Way (between Center Street and Allston Way, across from Old City Hall), Berkeley

With Conscientious Objectors and War Resisters from World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars

David Harris, Co-founder of The Resistance, the movement to Resist the Draft during the Vietnam War

Bob Meola, Berkeley Peace and Justice Commission, War Resisters League, Courage to Resist

Melissa Keith, Courage to Resist, Chelsea Manning Support Network

Sing along with Max Ventura, Hali Hammer, and Nancy Schimmel;  Broadside Balladeer Vic Sadot

Sponsored by City of Berkeley Peace and Justice Commission

Endorsed by War Resisters League-West, Courage to Resist, BFUU Social Justice Committee

Sing for an hour on Solano Avenue at the old Oaks Theater, Berkeley.

Three years have passed since Berkeley resident Kayla Moore was killed in her apartment by the Berkeley police. In October 2016, her family will at last have their day in court. Please join us as we demand Justice for Kayla Moore!

On February 12, 2013, police were called to Kayla’s Shattuck Avenue apartment by a friend who was concerned about her mental health. Police arrived and immediately attempted to place her under arrest. Kayla was an African American, transgender woman who weighed almost 350 pounds. When officers wrestled her face down onto a futon on the floor, they should have known that this could impair her breathing. Up to six cops, using their full weight continued to restrain the panicked woman and even called for a spit hood to be placed on her head. Ultimately, they didn’t get a chance use it. They thought she had calmed down; in fact, she had stopped breathing.

If you are concerned about racism, trans* issues and the treatment of people with mental illness by the BPD, we invite you to work with us to bring this case to the attention of the public. The number of people suffering from mental illness in Berkeley continues to rise, yet they are often provided with police responders instead of mental health professionals. This has to change!

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Please join us  to discuss ways to organize around the October court date and to compel this city to de-militarize mental health care!

Vigil for #AmilcarPerezLopez at Mission Police station 6 pm every Wed til @GeorgeGascon announces if #sfpd charged pic.twitter.com/TiyAAbsH6F

— Steve Rhodes (@tigerbeat) May 19, 2016

Let's talk about the criminalization of resistance. #apeoplesprimer pic.twitter.com/htP1EOPHGK

— Dr Crystallee Crain (@crystalleecrain) May 18, 2016

Join Ars Technica writers and law professor Elizabeth Joh for a conversation about law enforcement surveillance technology.

You can participate in the second episode of Ars Technica Live, a monthly interview series with fascinating people who work at the intersections of tech, science and culture. Filmed before a live audience in Oakland, each episode is a speculative, informal conversation between Ars Technica hosts Annalee Newitz and Cyrus Farivar and an invited guest. The audience, drawn from Ars Technica’s readers, is also invited to join the conversation and ask questions. These aren’t soundbyte setups; they are deepcuts from the frontiers of research and creativity.

The May 18 meet-up will cover the acceleration of the intersection of cops’ use of surveillance technology, and what it means for individual privacy.

Episodes are posted to Ars Technica the week after the live events.

Contact: Annalee Newitz (annalee@arstechnica.com)

Elizabeth Joh is a law professor of at the University of California, Davis. Her scholarship has appeared in the Stanford Law Review, the California Law Review, the Northwestern University Law Review, the Harvard Law Review Forum, and the University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online. She has also provided commentary for the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times.

Annalee Newitz is the tech culture editor at Ars Technica. Previously she was the editor-in-chief of Gizmodo and io9. She is the author of Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction (Doubleday). Her first novel, Autonomous, comes out in 2017 from Tor Books.

Cyrus Farivar is the senior business editor at Ars Technica. His book, The Internet of Elsewhere (Rutgers University Press) is about the history and effects of the Internet on different countries around the world, including Senegal, Iran, Estonia and South Korea. He previously was the Sci-Tech Editor, and host of “Spectrum” at Deutsche Welle English, Germany’s international broadcaster.

Episode #3: June 15, 2016 (topic/guest TBD)
Episode #4: July 22, 2016 (topic/guest TBD)

Monthly APTP meeting, held on every 3rd Wednesday of the month.

Please join us for this important general meeting.  We will be working specifically on the four demands we put forth following the OPD Rape Scandal:

1) Nancy O’Malley must publicly state she intends to launch a full investigation into the police officers who raped and trafficked a 17 year old child and press charges against all officers involved.

2) Divest 50% of the Oakland Police Department’s budget and redirect those funds to career centers, job training programs, mental health services, youth programming and services for sex workers.

3) The establishment of a CIVILIAN controlled police review commission

4) Libby Schaaf must to resign�

We will also be discussing next steps in the Teodora Valencia case, as well as First Responders needs and work.

See you in the streets~

The Anti Police-Terror Project is a project of the ONYX ORGANIZING COMMITTEE that in coalition with other organizations like The Alan Blueford Center For Justice, Idriss Stelley Foundation, Community Ready Corps and Workers World is working to develop a replicable and sustainable model to end police terrorism in this country.

We are led by the most impacted communities but are a multi-racial, mutil-generational coalition.

Enough is enough! We are asking the community to join #frisco500 at 5 pm SF city hall and hold a vigil until the mayor #firechiefsuhr

— HungerForJusticeSF (@hngr4justicesf) May 19, 2016

RSVP and send questions here tinyurl.com/Walls-Pre-Training-Survey

-1.5 hours General CLE credit (We ask attorneys to make a donation of $30 to support the work of the Prisoner Advocacy Network; no one will be turned away.)

-This training will teach participants about the Ashker v. Governor settlement and strategies for advocating for and with people still enduring solitary confinement or retaliation due to political activity and/or alleged gang activity. Trainers will focus on strategies for successfully advocating with and on behalf of people in SHU or otherwise related to the Ashker settlement.

The format of the training will be a question and answer session between Carol Strickman, Steven Czifra, and readings pieces on topic by incarcerated Jailhouse Lawyers. More TBA. If you have specific questions you would like addressed, please email them to: eva@delairlaw.com or rsvp here tinyurl.com/Walls-Pre-Training-Survey

Presenters Include:
-Steven Czifra, who spent 16 years in CDCR custody, 8 of which were in the SHU. He co-founded the UC Berkeley Underground Scholars Initiative (USI). Formerly incarcerated students created USI to support all prospective and current UC Berkeley students impacted by issues of mass incarceration, imprisonment, and detainment of any kind. The goal of USI is to bridge the topic of mass incarceration that is highly popularized in academia with one that is grounded in the lived experiences of UC Berkeley students. USI has the unique opportunity of making UC Berkeley a catalyst for the development of a Prison to School pipeline within the University of California educational system.

-Carol Strickman (Senior Staff Attorney at Legal Services for Prisoners with Children and named attorney on Ashker v. Gov.)

-People currently or previously housed in the SHU

This training series will focus on practical skills development for loved ones, activists, legal workers, and lawyers to understand the nitty gritty methods and best practices for supporting people in SHU

SF City Hall at 5:00. Vigil at 8:30 pm Shafter Ave & Elmira St, San Francisco, CA 94124 @BLMBAYAREA @last3% @CatsCommentary @TheFrisco5

— Anti Police-Terror (@APTPaction) May 19, 2016

Today, an SFPD sergeant shot and killed a 27 year-old Black woman and her unborn child who were in a car in the Bayview neighborhood of San Francisco. These are all the details we have right now.

This is the same neighborhood where a sergeant recently expressed a desire to kill Black people.

At 5:00, Mama Christina from the Black and Brown Coalition has asked people to join her on the steps of City Hall.

Afterwards the #Frisco500 with the full support of the Anti Police-Terror Project, Last 3% of SF, #DoNoHarm Coalition and Black Lives Matter Bay Area – call for the whole community to come out to a candlelight vigil at the site of the murder.

We’ll see you at the corner of Shafter Avenue and Elmira Street at 8:30pm tonight.

ALL are welcome and encouraged to join. Bring signs, candles and flowers if you can.

You know that old saying, “third times a charm…” Well, this will be the 3rd time that all of you have come out to show your immense support of the Land Action 4 and this huge, grass-roots, housing rights movement.

On MAY 20th, at 9am in DEPT 10 of the RENE C DAVIDSON COURTHOUSE The Land Action 4 have been promised a full half-day of the court’s time and an entire courtroom to ourselves!!! This is really huge!! Our legal defense team, with Tony Serra leading the charge, will present our Motion to Dismiss all charges.

Having the entire courtroom to ourselves can be an immense boon, and we want to make sure that WE PACK THE COURTROOM!!! That means that we really need every single one of you to be there. Each of you will have an extremely meaningful presence at this critical legal cross-roads, as this court case stands to set strong legal precedence around the use of adverse possession laws as a means to shelter. We need to show the court, the judge and rest of Oakland that our momentum won’t be dragged down by the court’s stalling tactics.

Twice now the Land Action 4 have stood before the discerning eye of a judge with a huge show of community support, twice now the powers that be have told us that they didn’t have time to listen to our plight. And finally, we have been promised by those powers that be that we will be heard!!! But, promises from “on high” only get us so far….

Some have said that our Motion reads like a HOUSING RIGHTS MANIFESTO and no doubt Tony Serra will orate it as such with fire and passion!!

So, please join The Land Action 4, our legal defense team and this powerful community of people who care about the basic human right of all folx to have shelter on MAY 20TH, at 9AM in DEPT 10 of the RENE C DAVIDSON COURTHOUSE.

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In case you are just tuning into this Bay Area Housing Crisis Drama…
Here is the full back story as told by defendants Patrick Xu and Wren Hyde

The interview begins at minute 35:54
https://kpfa.org/player/?audio=227703

On April 8th during the show Living Room, defendant Steven Dicaprio and attorneys Walter Riley and Dan Siegel talked about the Land Action 4 case specifically and address the political and economic side of the current Housing Crisis.

Interview begins at minute 30:17
https://kpfa.org/episode/living-room-april-8-2016/

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AND…. If you have the monies, we are $495 away from reaching our goal of paying back Patrick’s bail money that he had to borrow!!! AND if we can raise even more than our goal the money will go towards the court fees that we are steadily accruing.

Donate to support the Land Action 4’s legal expenses:
http://www.gofundme.com/m3vz8wva

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Also in news and the press:

Long-form radio show with Steven Dicaprio and Wren Hyde fielding questions from the radio interviewer and taking questions from listeners calling in.
http4s://kpfa.org/player/?audio=22868

KTVU TV segment:
http://www.ktvu.com/news/114969085-video

East Bay Express:
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2016/03/17/oakland-housing-rights-activists-face-85-years-in-prison

Join us for the 30 minute film BREAKING DOWN THE BOX followed by an update on California solitary confinement by Laura Magnani of AFSC’s Healing Justice program. Jennifer Kim, Esq. Director of Programs for the Ella Baker Center will discuss the legislation on confinement and isolation for youth. Before and after, step into the mock solitary confinement booth to experience the dimensions of the solitary world. Learn how you can help.

Childcare available with 48 hour advance notice. This is a FRAGRANCE FREE event. For more information or to request childcare, contact Lauren Poole at lpoole53@gmail.com.

Click the button at this link and let us know when you can go get some signatures. We are approaching the end of our time to submit our initiative, and we need to get as many signatures as possible to make sure it qualifies! 

Collecting signatures all week.  Here is Saturday’s schedule:

5/21/2016, Saturday
Lucky’s                                         12-3p                 Sign-up!
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Safeway South Shore               12-3p                 Sign-up!
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Alameda Landing                      12-3p                 Sign-up!
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Apartment Building                   5-7p                 Sign-up!
Ferry Building                        4:30-6:30p           Sign-up!